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Why make such a low effort pessimistic comment. What happened to HN?
by swalsh 3y ago
Why make such a low effort pessimistic comment. What happened to HN?
- catchnear4321 3y agosame thing that is happening everywhere. cognitive effort is getting unbalanced, it used to be necessary to put effort in on write, and on read. now, it is hard to tell who put effort in at all. read or write. would you consider your own response to be optimistic or high effort?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- adw 3y agoHN has always been a tense standoff between a few cliques, the first two being the ostensibly intended audience; * competent and curious engineers * entrepreneurs, who live on a continuum where one end is... * ...hucksters and snake-oil purveyors, of which there are plenty, and * (because this is the Internet) conspiracy theorists and other such loons and recently * political provocateurs You can make a thread work (for that group of people) if it self-selects who reads it. Unfortunately, AI is catnip to all five of these groups, so the average thread quality is exceptionally low – it serves all five groups badly. Whether some of these people _should_ be served well is a separate question.
- nfw2 3y ago[flagged]
- g8oz 3y agoSnark has always been part of this website.
- ks2048 3y agoI think pointing out BS is an important part of a useful forum.
- throw10920 3y agoYou might have responded to the wrong comment. binoct's comment is not "pointing out BS" - that requires that you, y'know, actually point out things. binoct's comment is sneering, without any content or thought. Pure fluff.
- amusedcyclist 3y ago^ How to spot a sucker